World Peace, 36, will play basketball and eat with attendees of the free event before speaking and participating in a Q&A about his childhood struggles, according to the nonprofit.

The Lakers re-signed World Peace, a forward, in 2015 after waiving him in 2013. He won a championship with them in 2010 when he was known as Ron Artest.

World Peace in the past has spoken openly about his rough upbringing in Queens, New York. In May, he told ESPN’s “Highly Questionable” hosts Dan Le Batard and Bomani Jones that he learned to cook crack at the age of 13, and drank Hennessy during halftime at games.

“That was something I’m not proud of, obviously,” he told Le Batard and Jones. “But it was something that was introduced to me at an early age.”

World Peace also spoke of being unprepared before playing professional basketball. He told the hosts he had a nervous breakdown during his time with the Chicago Bulls, to which he was drafted in 1999 just out of St. John’s University. He even applied for a job at Circuit City while playing for the Bulls.

“The Bulls tried everything,” he said. “But I was very, very unstable.”

World Peace will be at Trinity Lutheran School, at 400 N Swinton Ave., July 30 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. To register for the free event at Trinity Lutheran School, visit the website here.

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